Synaptive Medical is offering a 3D anisotropic diffusion phantom as a prize in this challenge. This unique phantom, with housing shape and size suitable for standard MR head coils, mimics the brain’s fascicles using simulated fiber bundles with quantifiable anisotropy.
The phantom was designed to support the utility and application of DWI as a diagnostic decision-making tool for researchers and clinicians. It bio-mimics a temporally stable neuro-architecture and allows for standardized and rigorous assessment across systems and image processing software to improve reproducibility and temporal stability (i.e., to be used as the ground truth).
